these stats are skewed. If you take the total number of PROCEDURES done and divide that by population, it doesnt show if more PEOPLE get it done in a particular country than another.
Also, it doesnt look into details on how surgeries are done differently in countries. For example, in the U.S. it might be a "one shot" nose job, but in other countries they might do a "two step" surgical procedure so it counts as two.
Also, doesnt take into account how the surgeries are "reported". Countries with nationalized healthcare and more efficiency may better report procedures while other countries may not.
Basically, this report is grossly inaccurate. I'll bet I can use the same data and get completely different results to show.

I am wondering from where all these numbers are taken? They include plastic surgeries done in their country of residence or surgeries done abroad as well? Why I can't see any eastern European country in the list?www.MedLT.com

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Thank you for this informative article.
I'm in San Francisco.
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I recently saw the Dr. Usha Rajagopal Yelp reviews
and she seemed like a good local source.

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The graphic depiction of the chart is somewhat misleading because the values on the top scale are only per mille values. The 986 to 999 people in a thousand who don’t get any plastic surgery are not shown, so the graphic overemphasizes the difference between the listed countries.

545,401 Koreans ppl in Japan (December 31, 2011). so many ppl.o.O
They have the pseudonym of Japanese style.
By convenience, using different name, real name or Japanese pseudonym.
Crime in particular, when they are inconvenient,
Korean offenders hide the real name.

Do you think you're being subtly racist or blantantly racist with your haiku? Then again this just shows how incredibly xenophobic certain pockets of Japanese people still are to this day. One would think that considering the war-crimes committed by the Japanese military against Koreans during WWII, the Japanese government would offer citizenship to Japanese-born Koreans who have lived their entire lives in Japan and consider themselves wholely Japanese knowing no other culture. Also, who the heck are these "9" people who have "Recommended" your comment? Or did you yourself click "Recommend" nine times? Shame on you.

It is funny how so many south koreans try to argue that their high numbers are due to medical tourism. While this is true it isn't like it has skewed the data that much. Look at the numbers/ do the research it will only account for a small fraction.
I think it is also important to note that in south korea the number of procedures done by young people (both men and women)is so much higher than in other asian countries. Medical tourists from China are usually aging women who are looking to feel young again.

Approx. 30% of plastic patients are mostly from China and Japan. China is #2 and Japan is #4 in overall list just because China have more poor people that can't afford to have plastic surgery that doesn't mean only Koreans does it.

as a south korean korean electronic or medical systems are really good so many chinese and japanese come to south korea to treat or operate plastic surgeries so as many people from many asian countries.. south korea has lots of cutaneous(skin) care treats and systems..and the people in this statistics also include the foreigners who have been operated plastic surgeries and they are a lot. i know that u dont give a shit about what i'm saying but i saw only few people who did the surgeries like celebrities..this article sounds like south koreans are the people who take the surgeries a lot..it can be right also..but normal koreans doesnt take surgeries like facial and rest of body things..many chinese and taiwanese are the result

I'm a South Korean American and I personally know many, many Korean girls who have gotten plastic surgery. More so than any of my other Chinese, Japanese, other race friends. I've heard it's much worse in Korea, which seems to add up since most of my Korean friends who got plastic surgery at the ones that wern't born in America, but grew up in Korea and moved here to the U.S later on in life. Statistically from my personal experience(I've never had any but counting my Korean friends), 5 out of 10 have gone through it, all nose jobs or double eye lid surgery. They get them done very naturally and it's not super noticeable.